Exercise 2-01 indicate whether the following statements about the conceptual framework are true or false.
(a) accounting rule-making that relies on a body of concepts will result in useful and consistent pronouncements. select an option
(b) general-purpose financial reports are most useful to company insiders in making strategic business decisions. select an option
(c) accounting standards based on personal conceptual frameworks generally will result in consistent and comparable accounting reports. select an option
(d) capital providers are the only users who benefit from general-purpose financial reporting. select an option (
e) accounting reports should be developed so that users without knowledge of economics and business can become informed about the financial results of a company. select an option
(f) the objective of financial reporting is the foundation from which the other aspects of the framework logically result.

What is "staffing level"? a) the practice of assigning the same number of workers to each department b) the average educational level attained by employees of a business c) the rank above cashier d) the number of workers assigned to jobs at a particular time

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

Paar corporation bought 100 percent of kimmel, inc., on january 1, 2012. on that date, paar’s equipment (10-year life) has a book value of $420,000 but a fair value of $520,000. kimmel has equipment (10-year life) with a book value of $272,000 but a fair value of $400,000. paar uses the equity method to record its investment in kimmel. on december 31, 2014, paar has equipment with a book value of $294,000 but a fair value of $445,200. kimmel has equipment with a book value of $190,400 but a fair value of $357,000. the consolidated balance for the equipment account as of december 31, 2014 is $574,000. what would be the impact on consolidated balance for the equipment account as of december 31, 2014 if the parent had applied the initial value method rather than the equity method? the balance in the consolidated equipment account cannot be determined for the initial value method using the information given. the consolidated equipment account would have a higher reported balance. the consolidated equipment account would have a lower reported balance. no effect: the method the parent uses is for internal reporting purposes only and has no impact on consolidated totals.